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Selections for Gowran Park – July 25th2026
1.40: SEAXBURH (DYLAN B. MCMONAGLE/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 2.12: PRINCESS CHLOE (TERRY CASEY (7)/DANNY MURPHY) 2.44: DYNAMIC FORCE – EW – (SADHBH TORMEY (7)/TOM MCCOURT) 3.22: AMADEUS MOZART (RONAN WHELAN/AIDAN O’BRIEN) 3.55: VISHAYA (DYLAN B. MCMONAGLE/JOSEPH O’BRIEN)
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Is it time to call in HMRC?
Relax. Reference is not being made to King Charlie’s money grabbers. Rather one wonders is it time to convene a hurling equivalent to Jim Gavin’s Football Review Committee (FRC). Perhaps called the Hurling Management Review Committee. Hence the play on words! Hurling needs a review. That is not, in any way, to detract from the…
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Selections for Wexford – July 23rd 2026
4.00: GAME POINT (DONAGH MEYLER/RAY CODY) 4,35: ARE YOU AROUND (BRIAN HAYES/WILLIE MULLINS) 5.10: COSTANUCI – EW – (OLIVE QUEALLY (7)/JOHN QUEALLY) 5.45: JURY FOREMAN – EW – (ALAN O’SULLIVAN (5)/PAUL NOLAN) 6.20: CLEVER COURT – EW – (SHANE O’CALLAGHAN (3)/PHILIP ROTHWELL) 6.55: HATTFIELD HAMMER – EW – (ALAN O’SULLIVAN (5)/PAUL NOLAN) 7.30: SYOSSET –…
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Selections for Naas – July 22nd 2026
5.30: MAN’S BEST FRIEND (WAYNE LORDAN/AIDAN O’BRIEN) 6.00: BAD BOY RIZZ – EW – (SHANE FOLEY/ROSS O’SULLIVAN) 6.30: CONCORDE LANDED (BILLY LEE/PADDY TWOMEY) 7.00: COCONUT COVE – EW – (JACK MITCHELL/ROGER VARIAN, IN GB) 7.30: FAMOUS ENOUGH – EW – (SADHBH TORMEY (2*)/PAT FOLEY) 8.00: CONTRARY TO LAW (BEN COEN/JOHNNY MURTAGH) 8.30: SUZIE SONGS (COLIN…
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Selections for Wexford – July 22nd 2026
2.15: FUTURE PROSPECT (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 2.45: SKY LORD (DARRAGH O’KEEFFE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 3.20: BALLYBRITTAS – EW – (JOSH HALFORD (4*) /PHILIP ROTHWELL) 3.50: JUSTICIALISM – EW – (CONOR STONE-WALSH/NOEL KELLY) 4.20: LOS BLANCOS (DARRAGH O’KEEFFE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 4.50: SCALPNAGUN – EW – (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 5.20: ANODANDAWINK – EW – (HARRY COBDEN/CIARAN MURPHY)
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Podcast Episode: July 21st 2026
Pip: Limerick just won their sixth All Ireland hurling title in a decade, and apparently the secret is wearing last season’s jerseys to the final. Mara: That is actually one of the details Brendan unpacks on Boylan Talks Sport — how the small, barely visible choices a team makes reveal exactly where their heads are.…
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Selections for Ballinrobe – July 21st 2026
4.36: BELLS GROVE (KIEREN BUCKLEY/EDDIE BUCKLEY) 5.06: SHARU (DARRAGH O’KEEFFE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 5.39: MAX MERIDIUS – EW – (DANNY MULLINS/TOM MULLINS) 6.09: LUREKA DE NOYER (DARRAGH O’KEEFFE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 6.39: FIVEONFIVE – EW – (MARK WALSH/CIAN COLLINS) 7.09: RUN FOR THE BORDER (MICHAEL KENNEALLY (5)/JOHN RYAN) 7.39: WHISKEY SERENADE – EW – (EOGHAN FINNEGAN (5)/TOMMY…
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Multiple ‘small’ things combine to construct greatness
LIMERICK…1-29 GALWAY…1-18 When you work in and around the coalface of high level sport for as long as has been privileged to be the case in this seat, you learn to spot things that the ordinary spectator might not. Small things. Or at least that’s what they’re purported to be. Though nothing could be further…
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Selections for Ballinrobe – July 20th 2026
5.10: MINNAUN VIEW (PADDY MCGETTIGAN (5)/ADO MCGUINNESS) 5.40: CONTRITE (COLIN KEANE/DERMOT WELD) 6.10: DIVINE BELIEVER – EW – (COLIN KEANE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 6.40: ELUSIVE DUKE (COLIN KEANE/MARK MOLLOY) 7.10: WAR ROOMS – EW – (COLIN KEANE/GERRY KEANE) 7.40: MASEGO (RORY MULLIGAN (5)/JOHN MCCONNELL) 8.10: NUIT (COLIN KEANE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD)
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You don’t need a degree to know glass houses and stones don’t mix
No secret has ever been made of the fact that there is full cognisance in this seat of the privileged position one has been in for many years to be closer to the action across a variety of sports than many have the opportunity to be. Thus sometimes stories that make headlines on a broader…
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